Ecclesiastes 10:14 and the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming--who can tell him what will happen after him?

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New International Version (©1984)
and the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming--who can tell him what will happen after him?

New Living Translation (©2007)
they chatter on and on. No one really knows what is going to happen; no one can predict the future.

English Standard Version (©2001)
A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Yet the fool multiplies words. No man knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He never stops talking. No one knows what the future will bring, or what will happen after [death]. Who can say!

King James Bible
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

American King James Version
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

American Standard Version
A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

Bible in Basic English
The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?

Douay-Rheims Bible
A fool multiplieth words. A man cannot tell what hath been before him: and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Darby Bible Translation
And the fool multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who will tell him?

English Revised Version
A fool also multiplieth words: yet man knoweth not what shall be; and that which shall be after him, who can tell him?

Webster's Bible Translation
A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

World English Bible
A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn't know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?

Young's Literal Translation
And the fool multiplieth words: 'Man knoweth not that which is, And that which is after him, who doth declare to him?'

Geneva Study Bible

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

Wesley's Notes

10:14 Full of words - Forward to promise and boast what he will do, whereas none can be sure of future events, even during his own life, much more after his death.

King James Translators' Notes

is full...: Heb. multiplieth words

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

14. full of words-(Ec 5:2).

a man cannot tell what shall be-(Ec 3:22; 6:12; 8:7; 11:2; Pr 27:1). If man, universally (including the wise man), cannot foresee the future, much less can the fool; his "many words" are therefore futile.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:11-15 There is a practice in the East, of charming serpents by music. The babbler's tongue is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison; and contradiction only makes it the more violent. We must find the way to keep him gentle. But by rash, unprincipled, or slanderous talk, he brings open or secret vengeance upon himself. Would we duly consider our own ignorance as to future events, it would cut off many idle words which we foolishly multiply. Fools toil a great deal to no purpose. They do not understand the plainest things, such as the entrance into a great city. But it is the excellency of the way to the heavenly city, that it is a high-way, in which the simplest wayfaring men shall not err, Isa 25:8. But sinful folly makes men miss that only way to happiness.

Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise makes knowledge acceptable, But the mouth of fools spouts folly.

Ecclesiastes 3:22 I have seen that nothing is better than that man should be happy in his activities, for that is his lot. For who will bring him to see what will occur after him?

Ecclesiastes 5:3 For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through many words.

Ecclesiastes 6:12 For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 7:14 In the day of prosperity be happy, But in the day of adversity consider-- God has made the one as well as the other So that man will not discover anything that will be after him.

Able Declare Doesn't Fool Foolish Full Knoweth Multiplies Multiplieth Though Yet

Able Declare Fool Foolish Full Multiplies Multiplieth Words

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

fool 5:3 Pr 10:19 15:2

is full of words Job 34:37 35:16

a man 3:22 6:12 8:7 Jas 4:13,14

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Alphabetical: after and can come coming fool happen him is knows man multiplies No one tell the what who will words Yet

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